Rodney A. Brooks

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Rodney Allen Brooks (born December 30, 1954 in Adelaide ) is an Australian computer scientist and cognitive scientist .

Life

After studying mathematics at Flinders University , Rodney Brooks received his doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in 1981 . His research focuses on the one hand in the construction of simple but intelligent robots that can move freely in dynamic and complex environments, and on the other hand in the exploration of complex human intelligence through the construction of humanoid robots. It is therefore a classic representative of embodied Artificial Intelligence ( embodiment ).

In addition to teaching and writing, Brooks u. a. Co-founder of Heartland Robotics and iRobot . From 1997 to 2007 he was the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Subsumption architecture

Rodney Brooks' approach to building robots that can move flexibly in changing environments lies in dividing the behavior repertoire into many parallel calculated behavior patterns, from which the appropriate one is automatically selected. Instead of serially connecting different calculation blocks in series ( perception , cognition , action), the robot does not construct a representation of its environment, but acts directly on the basis of its sensor data. Only a fraction of the incoming sensor data is relevant for each behavior pattern, which greatly simplifies the calculation. The selection of the actually executed behavior is determined by the sensor data, whereby no distinction is made between self-perception (e.g. battery status) and perception of the world. If a behavior pattern reaches its activation threshold, it suppresses the execution of all other behavior patterns. Such an architecture allows reactions in real time, but is not capable of learning.

Awards and memberships (selection)

Brooks is a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence , a member of the National Academy of Engineering , a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Computing Machinery . In 1991 he received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award .

In 1997 he played in Errol Morris ' film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control , who after his paper Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System is named themselves.

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SURNAME Brooks, Rodney A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brooks, Rodney Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian computer scientist and cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , Australia